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Wednesday, 5 September 2018

THE CURIOUS CASE OF CORBYN.

Corbyn leads a political
ideology that sees evil in the world. It is not the evil of communism that has
slaughtered and repressed hundreds of millions of their own people in places
like the Russia and China.

It is not the evil of hard
left socialism that has ruined countries and impoverished people with failed
socialist economic policies in countries such as Cuba and Venezuela, despite Corbyn’s
idolization of Castro, Che Gevara, and Chavez.

It is not the evil
perpetrated by 3rd World and Arab liberation movements that leave a
trail of bodies and millions of refugees in their wake, but that Corbyn
supports ideologically.

Corbyn’s perceived evil is
western imperialism, European colonialism, things of the past but to which Corbyn
still clings today, and capitalism, another evil in the eyes of Corbyn.

They like to call his
movement the new socialist left, but it’s not new, and it is certainly not
democratic socialism.It is more a
hardened socialism.

The glue that links the
triple towers of American imperialism, European colonialism, and capitalism is
Israel via the Zionist cause. And, according to Corbyn, at the heart of this
malevolent movement are the Jews with their money, their powerful influence,
and Israel with its evil and racist tendencies to trample over the human rights
of downtrodden Palestinians whose land has been stolen from them by the Zionist
colonialists aided and abetted by Britain and America – a wrong that can only
be corrected with the establishment Palestine, preferably in place of the
illegal state of Israel.

According to the Corbyn
credo, Zionism is racism and the Jews of Britain are guilty by association, by
their support for Israel, a support that goes back a century. Zionism is racism
and if you are Jewish and love Israel you are a racist, and that doesn’t make
corbyn or his cohorts anti-Semites. So goes the mantra according to Corbyn.
Israel is a mistake and a crime that must be rectified in the name of social
justice and human rights.

This is evidenced by a 2012
wall mural daubed with stereotyped figures depicting Jewish bankers playing a
game of monopoly (money) with their table top resting on the backs of half-naked
workers.

Corbyn originally
supported the artist’s work but, after a hullabaloo, the Labour party, and then
a corbyn spokesperson, fumbled a lame excuse that Corbyn had supported the
artist in the name of freedom of speech, and not the content of his artwork to
which he hadn’t really paid attention.

This is the lazy anti-Semitism
of Corbyn.

It is no coincidence that two
of his sons inherited a detestation of Jews and Israel.

In March, 2018, Britain’s
Daily Mail revealed that son, Tommy, posted a Nazi-style cartoon on his Facebook
page showing an arm with a Star of David crushing people. It came with the
Tommy Corbyn message, “why is it that I can critique my own, or any other
government, but criticism of the Israeli state is branded anti-Semitic?”

He was followed into the Facebook
pit he had dug for himself by someone who posted “Hitler was a Zionist.”You see where it leads.

Tommy Corbyn
belonged to several Facebook pages that regularly posted anti-Semitic screeds
that included claims that members of the royal family were Jewish and they
controlled the world with the Rothschild banking dynasty. Or one depicting the
earth with a Star of David and the anti-Semitic message, “the new world of Zionism
is almost here! One government. One currency. One religion. Act now!”

Sickeningly, it
goes on, and on.

And the other one, Ben, is
much the same. Keen to see a Palestine in place of Israel. Cries for dead Palestinians. Not a tear
for dead Israelis.

The apples don’t fall far
from the rotten tree.

Jeremy Corbyn sent out a
statement.

‘Tomorrow evening
it will be my pleasure and my honour to host an event in parliament where our
friends from Hezbollah will be speaking. I’ve also invited friends from Hamas
to come and speak as well…the idea that an organization that is dedicated
towards the good of the Palestinian people and bringing about a long-term peace
and social justice and political justice in the whole region should be labelled
as a terrorist organisation by the British government is really a big, big
historical mistake.”Jeremy
Corbyn March 3, 2009.

The following year,
thirteen Palestinian terror groups headed by the Islamist Hamas launched a
military campaign against Israel in an attempt to derail peace talks between Israel
and the Palestinian authority.

During the fighting, Corbyn
stood in Trafalgar Square and told a crowd of thousands gathered in support of
a Hamas war against Israel that “in our thousands, in our million, we are
all Palestinians.”

Corbyn’s spin-master, Labour’s
Executive Director of Strategy and Communications, Seumas Milne, explained that
Palestine had become “the greatest international cause of our time.”

It can’t be because of the
Palestinians killed by Israel in response to the wholesale Hamas-motivated
violence, although this was their excuse, because, right next door to Israel,
the number of people killed in the Syrian civil war enormously outnumbered those
in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Included in the dead in Syria
were almost 200,000 Palestinians yet, as Dave Rich wrote in his book, the
left’s Jewish problem, we have never heard corbyn chant “in our
thousands, in our million, we are all Syrians.”

Why is this? Could it be
he doesn’t really care about the Syrian dead, or the Palestinian dead in Syria?

The reason he is not a Syrian
is because Syria is backed by Russia and Iran. Had Assad been backed by America,
or perversely, Israel, Corbyn would have screamed about being a Syrian – but he
didn’t, and that is telling.

Could it be that he
supports Palestinians because his target for abuse is exclusively Israel, and
he can’t pin the massive Syrian death toll on the Jewish state?

Actually, this is a
perfectly reasonable assumption.

Israel is, for Corbyn, the
epitome of his perfect enemy.

The Jewish state is, for
corbyn, the donkey he can beat and kick to his heart’s content. It fits all the
evils of his malevolent mind. He can trot out all the hard left epithets and
craft them to match his fevered image of Israel.

Corbyn can construct Israel
to be a white European colonial power, no matter that the majority of Israelis
are Mizrahi Jewish refugees kicked out of Arab and Muslim lands. Or that a colonist is someone enlisted by a
major power to colonize a conquered territory, a description palpably out of
whack with how and why a Jewish majority exists in Israel.

Corbyn can posit Israel as
stealing someone else’s land when, in fact, the international community granted
a specified mandate to re-establish the national homeland of the Jewish people
on the barren land of a dead ottoman empire.

This bequeath was an acknowledgement
of a history in which the Jews were the original indigenous people on the
ancient land of Israel.But you will
never find this in Corbyn’s vocabulary.

To Corbyn, Israel is
scarred with the twin sins of deserting socialism for capitalism, made more
bitter by the modern success of Israel’s free economy, and of Israel being a
close ally of America.

To Corbyn, these are
unforgiveable sins and must be opposed by all means possible, even disreputable
ones.

Corbyn frequently calls on
the British government to stop supplying Israel with military supplies and
armaments. But Corbyn has no objection to Britain supplying infinitely larger
supplies of military hardware to Turkey, a country that has been occupying the
small European island of Cyprus for about as long as Israel has been in the
West Bank, a Turkey that is killing Kurds with gay abandon, without restriction,
and without a peep from Corbyn.No “We
are all Cypriots” from Corbyn’s mouth.

In Corbyn’s fevered mind,
Israel is the most racist, violent, oppressive state on the planet.

We have to ask ourselves
why he thinks this way. There is more behind it than the massive support it
brings him allied to his threat of inflicting a socialist economy on Britain,
an economy that brought Britain to the brink of ruin in the 70s.

So what can it be if it is
not the famous Natan Sharansky definition of anti-Semitism when applied to Israel.
Watch out for the three d’s – demonization, delegitimization, and double
standards. Check this out, Corbyn is guilty of all three.

Corbyn hosted Hamas in the
British parliament. Can anyone tell me if Corbyn ever hosted an Israeli
diplomat or minister to hear their views, for balance, if little else, to
question the Israeli perspective in healthy debate, rather than propagandize an
anti-Israel message? It never happened.

Did Corbyn ever applaud Israel’s
efforts to bring about the long-term peace agreements with Jordan and Egypt?
Does he have anything positive to say about prolonged Israeli efforts to reach
agreements with the Palestinians? There were three substantial concessions
offered to the Palestinians by Israeli leaders. The Palestinians rejected all
of them, reject the notion of living alongside the Jewish side, reject any
negotiations with Israel.

Did Corbyn ever criticize
the Palestinians for their decades of violence and terror and their rejection of
Israel’s right to exist?

Strange behavior for
someone who claims to be a man of peace.

Corbyn spoke about a “long
term peace” for “the good of the Palestinian people.” What is he
talking about? Did his friends, Hamas or Hezbollah, ever did anything to bring
about a long-term peace in the region, let alone with Israel?

Did he?

What is Corbyn’s
definition of a terrorist organisation if Hamas and Hezbollah are not included.
On second thought, I am not interested
in hearing his definition. His definition will be Israel and America.

At the end of last August,
when Israel achieved a break in Hamas’s hostilities against the Jewish state
with the help of Egypt and Qatar, an angry Mahmoud Abbas said that “Hamas is
a gang and its leaders are thugs and thieves.”

Apparently, it takes a Palestinian
to recognize a Palestinian.

He went on, “we will
not allow anyone to turn Hamas into a legitimate government in the Gaza Strip,
even if that means a direct confrontation with Egypt and Qatar.”

So much for long term
peace between the Palestinians, Mr. Corbyn, let alone with Israel.

Truth be told, Corbyn is a
fraud.

What should disqualify corbyn as a leader of Britain
is his grave and gross errors of judgment.

Corbyn and his ‘Stop the War Coalition’ have
always been on the wrong side of history. He and they have stopped no wars. On
the contrary, they have been disrupters to peace processes.

He sided with the IRA against Britain. His
heroes have been Castro and Chavez. Can you pick any greater socialist
disasters than these regimes, a disaster he is keen to impose on Britain?

There is nothing meek, weak, peace-loving, or positive about Hamas, Palestinian
Islamic jihad, or Hezbollah. They are the opposite of peace-makers. They are
peace-destroyers. They are recognized internationally as terror organizations and
the cause of instability in the middle east. They threaten and oppress not only
eight million Israeli citizens, but their own people.

In Hezbollah’s case, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen
have been negatively impacted, by Hezbollah’s violent interference. Thousands
have been killed and injured by this proxy of the not-so-peaceful Islamic
republic of Iran.

Lebanese Hezbollah chief, Nasrallah, is not subservient
to the Lebanese government, but take his orders from the Iranian Khamenei, both
being Muslim Shia. Less to do with loyal
nationhood. More to do with a religious affiliation with a foreign power. Is
this Corbyn’s sense of democratic values?

Corbyn cannot be further from the truth in his definition of Israel. He
is incapable of dispassionately seeing the world in general and the middle east
in particular as it really is.He is too
invested in his personal biases and his political ambitions to be swayed by
facts.

The
Palestinians have been let down, depressed, oppressed, had their hopes for a
better future dashed, by their own failed leadership, and by the outside
influence of troublemakers.

At the end of the day, Corbyn
has done absolutely nothing positive for peace or for the Palestinians in
decades.

Even with his intimate
contacts with the most brutal elements of the Palestinian leadership he has
been unable or unwilling to heal the rift in the Palestinian political divide
between Fatah and Hamas, a chasm that erupted in a Palestinian civil war and
the ensuing murder of over six hundred Palestinians by Palestinians.

When they are not killing
each other, they are killing Israeli Jews.

What sort of Palestine is
Corbyn working for? Is it a two-state solution? Or is it one without Jews and
without a Jewish state? For one thing is predicted with an awful certainty. If
there is to be a Palestine, by the ballot or by the bullet, Hamas will usurp
power. Which raises the question, do we really want to see another Hama tan in
the West Bank, overlooking the narrow coastal plain of Israel, threatening Jerusalem?

In short, Jeremy corbyn
and his ilk must recognize the fundamental national rights of the Jewish people
in their ancestral homeland, to accept the rights of Israelis to live without
fear and without threats to our survival, and acknowledge that Israeli society
share the same creative, constructive, peace-loving values cherished by good
people everywhere.

Barry Shaw is the Senior
Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel institute for Strategic Studies.

1 comment:

Corbyn led the Campaign to free the convicted bombers of the Israeli London Embassy and the UJIA offices in Finchley in 1994 after their 20 year sentence at the Old Bailey on 11 December 1996 - including their numerous appeals including one to the European Court of Human Rights. This is more than plain political he is acting in all this as an agent for an unknown power